Society is able to function because of agreement. If agreement is essential to society working, than its also essential to our lives working. In fact, our lives work to the degree that we keep our agreements.

If you agree to complete an assignment, and do complete it, your understanding of the subject improves. So does your grade. You also contribute to your self-esteem, by experiencing the satisfaction and success of completing the assignment. If you break your word, you create a gap in your learning, a lower grade and possibly a negative feeling about yourself as a student.

The cost of not keeping our agreement is high. We feel ineffective. We experience psychological upset, interpersonal conflict and social turmoil. When we break our promise to be faithful to our spouse, to obey traffic laws, to show up after telling a friend we'd help her move or to pay a bill as had agreed to, the results are messy.

Strained relationships and painful consequences indicate that something in our life does not work.

Keeping our word is enlivening. We experience being effective. Our psychological strength and selfesteem improve. Relationships become nurturing and mutually supportive. Our lives work.

Starting with our most intimate personal contacts and moving through levels of family, friends, school, business, community and nation, keeping our agreements brings satisfaction and harmony.

The person you are right now is a result of all the choices you've made in your life until now. Your future will be determined by choices and agreements you make from now on.

Be cautious about giving your word. Don't make agreements unless you fully intend to keep them. Keep your agreements as if your life depended on them, because it does.

Be clear about the differences between "I'll try to do it," and, "I give you my word that I'll do it." Trying to do something reserves a convenient excuse for not getting it done. "I tried" usually means "I failed." A wide receiver either caught the ball or he tried to catch the ball.

When you break an agreement, examine your intention. A part of you wanted to keep the agreement. Since you didn't keep your word, another part of you must have resisted it. When you genuinely and completely choose to do something, internal resistance disappears.

Everyone breaks agreements. The only way to be certain you won't break agreements is not to make any. The problem is that relationships are built on agreements. Other's know who you are, and what to expect, by your intentions, commitments and agreements. Your word defines your values and beliefs. You can learn who you are by observing which commitments you choose and which ones you avoid.

Your agreements give life to your intentions and purpose, when you give your word, you are engaged in an act of creation_ literally. Words and language bring intentions into existence. Until you commit yourself to something by giving your word, there is little chance you will follow through.

Your word and agreement make things happen. Circumstances, events, even attitudes, fall into place. Information and assistance appear as a result of your commitment. Everything starts with your word.

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